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SITP is searching for postdoctoral fellows across the full range of theoretical physics. Particular…
SITP sign on 3rd floor of the Varian Physics Building
SITP invites applications for postdoctoral fellows in all areas of condensed matter theory, broadly…
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The Department of Physics at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior or senior…
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SITP sign on 3rd floor of the Varian Physics Building
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October 14, 2024
Academic Jobs Online
SITP is searching for postdoctoral fellows across the full range of theoretical physics. Particular areas of focus this year will include quantum…
SITP sign on 3rd floor of the Varian Physics Building
- Featured Job Posting
October 14, 2024
Academic Jobs Online
SITP invites applications for postdoctoral fellows in all areas of condensed matter theory, broadly construed.
Stanford aerial shot/Andrew Brodhead
- Featured Job Posting
October 14, 2024
Stanford Faculty Positions
The Department of Physics at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior or senior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor…
- Postdocs
September 30, 2024
Quanta Magazine
Karl Schwarzschild first stumbled upon black holes in 1916, but for a long time they weren’t really a thing.
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- Faculty
May 31, 2024
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
The 2024 Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize was awarded to Andrei Linde for his outstanding research contributions in the field of cosmology.
- Department News
- Faculty
May 31, 2024
Oscar Klein Centre
The 2024 Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture will be given by Renata Kallosh in the Oskar Klein Auditorium, AlbaNova.
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- Hard Problems
April 11, 2024
Quanta Magazine
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks…
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- Postdocs
January 11, 2024
The Buchalter Cosmology Prize
Dr. Racco's research during his SITP postdoctoral appointment has been awarded the Third Prize of the 2023 Buchalter Cosmology Prize.
- Faculty
September 11, 2023
Quanta Magazine
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of…
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- Awards
- Faculty
August 8, 2023
ICTP
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has awarded its 2023 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made wide-ranging…
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- Postdocs
August 2, 2023
Quanta Magazine
Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash.
- Faculty
June 6, 2023
Quanta Magazine
The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.